Poor sanitation, stress and disrupted diets can reshape gut bacteria in refugees, showing how social conditions can leave lasting biological effects.
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Australia is increasingly settling refugees with disability. New research points to intersecting issues that help and hinder how they fare when they get here.
Addressing key barriers to refugees accessing mental health services is in everyone’s best interest.
Canberra has reinstated funding for 42 refugees and asylum seekers in the country, but given their deteriorating physical and mental health, it should be doing much more.
After fleeing persecution, many refugees struggle to get care for serious physical and mental health problems in Australia.
The Queensland government’s Olympic legacy strategy aims for a more inclusive community through the power of sports. But more needs to be done to help refugees join in.
A Calgary refugee health clinic documented the stories of 242 Yazidi genocide survivors, recounting enslavement, slaughter and forced indoctrination.
Our new study describes the health effects of detention on children, and the clinical results are alarming.
Refugee camps should only be a temporary solution. They’re no place for ongoing health care.
While most people offering support to Ukrainians are well-intentioned, it’s not always the case. There are a reports of women and girls fleeing Ukraine being raped in their new countries.
Researchers asked aid workers how to best prepare for the climate emergency in places where its effects are most severe.
Based on how other diseases have moved through refugee camps, there is an urgent need to protect refugees in camps and informal settlements from COVID-19.
Immigrants and other newcomers to Canada are worried about maintaining their relationships and staying afloat, and need government consideration and support.
Research shows that many immigrants are healthier than Canadians when they arrive in the country. The longer they stay, the more their health declines.
A bill to allow for asylum seeker on Nauru and Manus Island to be transferred to Australia for medical and psychiatric treatment has passed both Houses. How will it change things for those detained?
New research into the health of newly arrived refugee children in Australia gives us clues about how we can help all refugee kids.
Migrant children often become interpreters for their parents in settings like the doctor’s office, legal situations and even in parent-teacher interviews. This can be a burden and affect their health.
Health professionals have long warned that conditions in offshore detention centres are inhumane, degrading and pose life-threatening risks to asylum seekers and refugees.
The collapse of Syria’s health system is helping spread leishmaniasis but not in the way some media outlets have reported.
A bill that would release the 112 children currently in immigration detention in Australia will soon go before the House of Representatives. So what should MPs consider when casting their votes?
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Paediatrician and Associate Professor, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow in Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer & Director Engagement and International, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University
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Director, Centre for International Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Laureate Professor of Medicine University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Professor of Biochemical Parasitology, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Health in Human Diversity Unit, Adelaide University
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Research fellow, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Emergency Management, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor and Head of Humanitarian Research Program, Australian National University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra